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  1. I've got a couple of subjects from Wolfpak Decals' 72-024 Alaskan Air Command I have been wanting to do. Clik here, you may need to scroll down to see the sheet. I'll pick one of them for the build, most likely the Deuce, since I've got one in the stash. Hi-viz rules!

  2. Revell 1/72 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat. Copyright 1965 on the box. Starfighter Decals "Early Wildcats Part 3." This plane belonged to Lt. (j.g.) William Leonard, VF-11, Guadalcanal, June 1943. Note the Sundowner's badge by the windshield.

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    The photos came out very dark, the actual bue gray shade is much ligher in person. This color scheme was not very familiar to me before this build. It has grown on me, and now I feel it may be the most attractive ever worn by a US warplane.

    Thanks for looking!

  3. Holmes- thanks for looking!

    FlyARGuard - yes, 78-0811 is an ex-OK ANG bird as you pointed out. You have sharp eyes! This is noted on my Webshots page as a caption to this photo, but I neglected to explain that here on ARC. I was speaking to one of the flight crew in the cockpit (a Nav I believe) and he told me that the heat out in OK had toasted a lot of the insulation on the wiring, and the Pittsburgh folks have needed to do a lot of work on this. Maybe these planes don't like the change in climate?

  4. Maybe we can start a permanent thread for this important transport.

    Here is the Berlin Airlift memorial aircraft at the Westmoreland Co. (PA) Airshow this past August:

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    Link to my Webshots folder on this show.

    Anyone have some more Skymaster photos, civilian or military?

  5. New Hotel-model walk-around available. This is s/n 78-0811 "lest we forget....their sacrifice....our freedom" from the 911AW of the PA ANG in Pittsburgh.

    link Seen August 21, 2011 Latrobe, PA.

    A few highlights:

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    The nose art one I shared back nearer the time I took the photos. Sorry for the repeat. Hope you enjoy the photos!

  6. At last year's IPMS club holiday party I decided to pick the smallest box. Good things come in small packages, right?

    Well, I got this:

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    1/300 scale - too big for any normal ship model, too small for normal airplane builders. What were the folks at Nichimo thinking? Well, in any case, we'll have a VF-84 Tomcat and a VA-25 Corsair II in next to no time. I just hope the camera can focus on something that small. :P

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